THE CENTRAL PROVINCES COURT OF WARDS ACT, 1899 

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

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SECTIONS. 

1. Short title, extent and commencement. 

2. Definitions. 

3. Commissioner to be Court of Wards. 

4. Superintendence by Court of Wards of property of disqualified landholder. 

5. Land-holders to be deemed disqualified in certain cases. 

6. Superintendence by Court of Wards on application of proprietor. 

7. Temporary provisions for custody of heirs and protection of property in certain cases. 

8. Superintendence by Court of Wards of person of disqualified landholder. 

9.  Superintendence  by  Court  of  Wards  where  disqualified  landholder  owns  land  in  more  than  one                               

division. 

10.  Assumption  of  superintendence  to  be  notified  and  to  extend  to  whole  of  Government  ward’s      

property. 

11. Barring of suits to contest authority to assume superintendence. 

12. Notices to claimants against Government ward. 

13. Claimants to furnish full particulars and documents. 

14. Stay of proceedings of Civil Courts. 

15. Adjudication of claims. 

16. Report of Chief Commissioner. 

17. Appointment, etc., of managers by Court of Wards. 

18. Delegation of powers by Court of Wards. 

19. Liabilities, etc., of managers and other servants of Court of Wards. 

20. Power for Court of Wards to appoint guardians of certain Government wards. 

21. General powers of Court of Wards. 

22. Custody, education and residence of certain Government wards. 

23. Allowance for Government ward and his family. 

24. Duties of Court of Wards or manager. 

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SECTIONS. 

25. Powers of Court of Wards as to property of Government wards. 

26. Notice of suit. 

27. Manager or Court of Wards to be next friend or guardian in suit by or against Government wards. 

28. Payment of costs. 

29. Processes against Government ward to be served on next friend or guardian. 

30. Authority of Court of Wards required in case of suits brought on behalf of Government wards. 

31. Disabilities of a Government ward. 

32. Consent of Local Government necessary to adoptions or wills made by Government wards. 

33. Procedure when succession to Government ward's property is disputed. 

34. Withdrawal of superintendence of Court of Wards. 

35. Appointment of guardian in certain cases. 

36. Withdrawal to be notified in Gazette. 

37. Appeals. 

38. Control of Local Government. 

39. Exercise of discretion not to be questioned in Civil Court. 

40. Power for Local Government to make rules. 

41. Repeal. 

THE SCHEDULE. 

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THE CENTRAL PROVINCES COURT OF WARDS ACT, 1899 

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ACT NO. XXIV OF 1899 

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An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Court of Wards in the Central Provinces. 

WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Court of Wards in the Central 

Provinces; It is hereby enacted as follows:— 

 [13th October,1899.] 

Preliminary. 

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Central Provinces Court 

of Wards Act, 1899. 

(2) It extends to the territories for the time being administered by the Local Government of the Central 

Provinces; and 

(3) It shall come into force at once. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— 

(a) the expression “Government ward” means any person of whose property, or of whose person 

and property, the Court of Wards may, for the time being, have the superintendence under this Act; 

(b) “land” includes the rights of a land-holder in respect of the land of which he is the malguzar or 
zamindar  or  the  muafidar,  jagirdar,  ubaridar  or  other  assignee  of  land-revenue,  or  in  which  he  is 
interested; and 

(c) “land-holder” means a malguzar as defined in the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881, 
XVIII of 1881, and the zamindar of any zamindari in a Scheduled District, and includes a muafidar, 
jagirdar, ubaridar or other assignee of land-revenue, and any person not hereinbefore specified who is 
interested in land and belongs  to a class of which the Local Government, with the  previous sanction 
of the Governor General in Council, has declared the members to be land-holders for the purposes of 
this Act. 

3. Commissioner to be Court of Wards.—Subject to the provisions of section 9, the Commissioner 

shall be the Court of Wards for the limits of his division. 

4.  Superintendence  by  Court  of  Wards  of  property  of  disqualified  land-holder.—The  Court  of 
Wards  may,  with  the  previous  sanction  of  the  Local  Government,  assume  the  superintendence  of  the 
property of any land-holder owning land within the local limits of its jurisdiction who is disqualified to 
manage his property. 

5. Land-holders to be deemed disqualified in certain cases.—(1) The following persons shall, for 

the purposes of section 4, be deemed to be disqualified to manage their own property, namely:— 

(a) minors; 

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(b) persons adjudged by a competent Civil Court to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing 

their affairs; and 

(c) persons declared by the Local Government to be incapable of managing their property owing  

to— 

(i) any physical or mental defect or infirmity; 

(ii) their having been convicted of a non-bailable offence and being unfitted by vice or bad 

character; or 

(iii) their being females. 

(2)  No  suit  shall  be  brought  in  any  Civil  Court  in  respect  of  any  declaration  made  by  the  Local 

Government under sub-section (1), clause (c). 

6. Superintendence by Court of Wards on application of proprietor.—(1) Any land-holder may 
apply to the Local Government to have his property placed under the superintendence of the Court of Wards, 
and the Local Government may on such application, if it thinks it expedient in the public interests, order 
the Court of Wards to assume the superintendence of the property. 

(2) An order made by the Local Government under sub-section (1) shall be sufficient to authorize the 
Court  of  Wards  to  assume  the  superintendence  of  the  property  referred  to  therein,  and  no  suit  shall  be 
brought in any Civil Court in respect of any such order. 

7.  Temporary  provisions  for  custody  of  heirs  and  protection  of  property  in  certain  cases.—                       

(1) Whenever the Court of Wards receives information that any land-holder has died and has reason to 
believe  that  the  heir  of  the  land-holder  is  a  person  who  is,  or  should  be  adjudged  or  declared  to  be, 
disqualified under section 5, the Court may— 

(a) take such steps and make such order for the temporary custody and protection of the property 

inherited as it thinks fit; and, 

(b)  if  the  heir  is  a  minor,  direct  that  the  person  (if  any)  having  the  custody  of  the  minor,  shall 
produce him or cause him to be produced at such place and time and before such person as the Court 
may appoint, and make such order for the temporary custody and protection of the minor as it thinks 
fit: 

Provided that, where the minor is a female and belongs to a class the females of which do not usually 
appear in public, her production shall be required only in accordance with the manners and customs of the 
country. 

(2) Whenever the Court of Wards proceeds under this section, it shall forthwith report its action for the 

information of the Local Government. 

8. Superintendence by Court of Wards of person of disqualified land-holder.—Where the Court 
of Wards assumes the superintendence of the property of a minor or of a person who has been adjudged by 
a competent Civil Court to be of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs, it may, with the 
previous sanction of the Local Government, assume the superintendence of his person also: 

Provided that nothing in this section shall authorize the Court of Wards to assume the superintendence 

of the person of a female who is married to a man of full age and is in his custody. 

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9. Superintendence by Court of Wards where disqualified land-holder owns land in more than 
one division.—Where a land-holder owns land within two or more divisions, such one only of the Courts 
of Wards as the Local Government may determine in this behalf shall assume the superintendence of the 
property, or of the person and property, of the land-holder. 

10. Assumption of superintendence to be notified and to extend to whole of Government ward's 
property.—(1) Whenever the Court of Wards assumes the superintendence of the property of any person 
under  this  Act,  the  fact  of  such  assumption,  and  the  date  on  which  it  was  sanctioned  by  the  Local 
Government, shall be notified in the local official Gazette. 

(2)  On  and  with  effect  from  the  date  of  such  sanction,  the  whole  of  the  property,  moveable  or 
immoveable, of such person, whether the existence of any such property may be known to the said Court 
or not, shall be deemed to be under the superintendence of the Court of Wards. 

(3) Any property which the Government ward may inherit subsequently to the date of such sanction, 

shall also be deemed to be under the superintendence of the Court of Wards. 

(4) The Court of Wards may, in its discretion, assume, or refrain from assuming, the superintendence 
of any property which the ward may acquire, otherwise than by inheritance subsequently to the date of such 
notification. 

11. Barring of suits to contest authority to assume superintendence.— No suit shall be brought in 
any Civil Court to contest the authority of the Court of Wards in respect of the property, or of the person 
and property, of any person under this Act on the ground that such person was not, or is not, a land-holder 
or a minor. 

12.  Notices  to  claimants  against  Government  ward.—(1)  On  the  issue  of  a  notification  under               

section 10, the Court of Wards shall publish in the local official Gazette and in such other manner as the 
Local Government may, by general or special order, direct, a notice, in English and also in the vernacular, 
calling upon all persons having claims against the Government ward or his immoveable property to submit 
the same in writing to it within six months from the date of the publication of the notice aforesaid. 

(2) Every such claim (other than a claim on the part of the Government) not submitted to the Court of 

Wards  in  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  sub-section  (1),  shall,  save  in  the  case  provided  for  by                    
section 16, sub-section (2), clause (c), be deemed for all purposes and on all occasions, whether during the 
continuance of the management or afterwards, to have been duly discharged: 

Provided  that,  if  the  Court  of  Wards  is  satisfied  that  the  claimant  was  unable  to  comply  with  the 
provisions of sub-section (1), it may receive his claim at any time after the date of the expiry of the period 
aforesaid,  but  any  claim  so  received  shall,  notwithstanding  any  law,  contract,  decree  or  award  to  the 
contrary, cease to carry interest from the date of the expiry of the period aforesaid. 

13. Claimants to furnish full particulars and documents.—(1) Every claimant submitting his claim 
in  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  section  12,  sub-section  (1),  shall  furnish,  along  with  his  written 
statement of claim, full particulars thereof, and shall, at the same time, produce all documents (including 
entries in books of account) on which he relies to support his claim, together with a true copy of every such 
document. 

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(2) The Court of Wards shall, after making, for the purpose of identification, every original document 
so produced and verifying the correctness of the copy, retain the copy and return the original to the claimant. 

(3) If any document, which is in the possession or under the control of the claimant, is not produced by 
him  as  required  by  sub-section  (1),  the  document  shall  not  be  admissible  in  evidence  against  the 
Government ward, whether during the continuance of the management or afterwards, in any suit brought 
by the claimant or by any person claiming under him. 

14. Stay of proceedings of Civil Courts.—If a Civil Court has directed any process of execution to 
issue against any immoveable property of a Government ward or the rents thereof or any crops standing 
thereon, the Court of Wards may, at any time within one year after the issue of a notification under section 
10, apply to the Civil Court to stay proceedings in the matter of such process, and the Civil Court may, on 
such terms regarding interest or compensation for delay as may appear to it to be just and reasonable, stay 
such proceedings accordingly. 

15. Adjudication of claims.—(1) On receipt of all claims submitted in compliance with the provisions 
of sections 12 and 13, the Court of Wards shall proceed to investigate such claims and shall decide which 
of them  are  to  be  wholly  or  partly  admitted  or  wholly  or  partly  rejected,  as the  case  may  be,  and  shall 
communicate its decision in writing to each claimant concerned. 

(2) When the Court of Wards has admitted any claim under sub-section (1), it may make to the claimant 
a proposal in writing for the reduction of the claim, or of the rate of interest to be paid in future, or of both; 
and, if such proposal, or any modification of it, is accepted by the claimant and his acceptance is finally 
recorded and attested by the Court of Wards or by any Revenue-officer not being below the  rank of an 
Assistant  Commissioner  whom  the Local  Government  may,  by  general  or  special  order, appoint in  this 
behalf, it shall be conclusively binding upon the claimant: 

Provided that, if when the superintendence of the property by the Court of Wards is relinquished or 
otherwise terminates, any portion of the claim reduced as aforesaid is still unsatisfied, the claimant shall be 
entitled to recover a sum bearing the same proportion to the original claim admitted under sub-section (1) 
as the unsatisfied portion bears to the reduced claim. 

(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), nothing in this section shall be construed to bar the 
institution of a suit in a Civil Court for the recovery of a claim against a Government ward or his property 
which has been submitted to and received by the Court of Wards: 

Provided that, no decision of the Court of Wards under this section shall be proved in any such suit as 

against the defendant. 

16. Report to Chief Commissioner.— (1) When all claims have been investigated under section 15, 
the Court of Wards shall submit to the Local Government   a schedule of the debts and liabilities of the 
Government ward, and the Local Government may, when the estate appears to be involved beyond all hope 
of extrication or for any other sufficient reason, by an order published in the Local official Gazette, direct 
that, on a date to be fixed by the order, the superintendence of the property and person of the ward shall be 
relinquished by the Court of Wards. 

(2) On the date so fixed— 

(a) the superintendence shall terminate; 

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(b) the owner of the property under superintendence shall be restored to the possession thereof, 
subject  to  any  contracts  entered  into  by  the  Court  of  Wards  for  the  preservation  or  benefit  of  such 
property; 

(c) the claims referred to in section 12, sub-section (2), shall revive. 

(3) In calculating the periods of limitation applicable to suits to recover and enforce debts and liabilities 

revived under this section, the time during which such superintendence has continued shall be excluded. 

17.  Appointment,  etc.,  of  managers  by  Court  of  Wards.—The  Court  of  Wards  may  appoint  a 

manager of the property of any Government ward under its superintendence. 

18. Delegation of powers by Court of Wards.—(1) With the general or special sanction of the Local 
Government, the Court of Wards may, from time to time, delegate all or any of its powers to the Deputy 
Commissioner of  any district  in which any part of the property of a Government ward is situated, or to 
any other person whom it may appoint in this behalf; and may, at any time, with the like sanction, revoke 
such delegation. 

(2) Subject to any general or special orders of the Local Government, the Court of Wards may exercise 
all or any powers conferred on it by this Act through the Deputy Commissioner of any district in which  
any part of the property of  a Government ward is situated, or through any other person whom it may appoint 
in this behalf, and, subject to the like orders, any such Deputy Commissioner may exercise all or any powers 
delegated to him under this Act through any Revenue-officer subordinate to him. 

19.  Liabilities,  etc.,  of  managers  and  other  servants  of  Court  of  Wards.—(1)  Every  manager 

appointed by the Court of Wards shall— 

(a) give such security as the Court thinks fit duly to account for what he receives in respect of the 

rents and profits of the property under his management; 

(b) be entitled to such allowance as the Court thinks fit for his care and pains in the execution of 

his duties; and 

(c)  be  responsible  for  any  loss  occasioned  to  the  property  under  his  management  by  his  wilful 

default or gross negligence. 

(2) Every manager or other servant of the Court of Wards shall be deemed a “public servant” within 
the meaning of sections 161, 162, 163, 164 and 165 of the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860); and in the 
definition of “legal remuneration” contained in the said section 161, the word “Government” shall, for the 
purposes of this sub-section, be deemed to include the Court of Wards. 

20. Power for Court of Wards to appoint guardians of certain Government wards.—The Court of 
Wards may appoint guardians for the care of the persons of Government wards whose persons are, for the 
time being, under its superintendence. 

21.  General  powers  of  Court  of  Wards.—Subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act  and  of  any  rules 

thereunder, the Court of Wards— 

(a) may, of itself or through the manager (if any) appointed by it under this Act, do all such things 
requisite for the proper care and management of any property, of which it assumes the superintendence 
under this Act, as the owner of the property, if it were not under the superintendence of the Court of 
Wards, might do for its care and management; and 

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(b) may, of itself or through the guardian (if any) appointed by it under this Act, do, in respect of 
the person of any Government ward whose person is, for the time being, under its superintendence, all 
such things as may lawfully be done by a guardian. 

22. Custody, education and residence of certain Government wards.— The Court of Wards may 
pass such orders as it thinks fit in respect of the custody and residence of any Government ward whose 
person is, for the time being, under its superintendence, and, when he is a minor, in respect of his education. 

23. Allowance for Government ward and his family.— The Court of Wards may, from time to time, 
determine what sums shall be allowed in respect of the expenses of any Government ward and of his family 
and dependants. 

24. Duties of Court of Wards or manager.—The Court of Wards, or the manager (if any) appointed 
by it under this Act, shall manage the property of every Government ward under its superintendence or 
under his management diligently and faithfully for the benefit of the Government ward, and shall in every 
respect act to the best of its or his judgment for the Government ward's interest as if the property were its 
or his own. 

25. Powers of Court of Wards as to property of Government wards.—The Court of Wards may let 
the whole or any part of the property of any Government ward under its superintendence, and may, with 
the previous sanction of the Local Government, mortgage, sell or exchange the whole or any part of such 
property, and may do all such other acts as it may judge to be best for the benefit of the property and the 
advantage of the Government ward. 

26. Notice of suit.— No suit relating to the person or property of any Government ward shall be brought 
in any Civil Court until the expiration of two months after notice in writing, stating the name and place of 
abode of the intending plaintiff, the cause of action and the relief claimed, has been delivered to, or left at 
the office  of, the  Court  of Wards;  and  the  plaint  shall  contain  a  statement  that  such  notice has  been  so 
delivered or left: 

Provided  that  notice  under  this  section  shall  not  be  required  in  the  case  of  any  suit  the  period  of 
limitation for which will expire within three months from the date of a notification issued under section 10, 
sub-section (1). 

27. Manager or Court of Wards to be next friend or guardian in suit by or against Government 
wards.— In every suit brought by or against a Government ward, the manager of the ward's property or, if 
there is no manager, the Court of Wards having the superintendence of the ward's property shall be named 
as the next friend or guardian for the suit, as the case may be. 

28.  Payment  of  costs.—If,  in  any  suit  brought  by  or  against  a  Government  ward,  any  Civil  Court 
decrees any costs against the Government ward's next friend or guardian for the suit, the Court of Wards 
shall cause the costs to be paid out of any property of the Government ward which may, for the time being, 
be in its hands. 

29. Processes against Government ward to be served on next friend or guardian.— Every process 
which may be issued out of any Civil or Revenue Court against any Government ward shall be served on 
the Government ward's next friend or guardian for the suit. 

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30.  Authority  of  Court  of  Wards  required  in  case  of  suits  brought  on  behalf  of  Government 
wards.—No suit shall be brought, and no appeal in any suit shall be preferred, on behalf of any Government 
ward unless it is authorized by an order in writing of the Court of Wards: 

Provided as follows:— 

(1) a manager may authorize a plaint to be filed in order to prevent a suit from being barred by the 
law of limitation, but the suit shall not afterwards be proceeded with except under the sanction of the 
Court of Wards; 

(2) a suit for arrears of rent may be brought on behalf of a Government ward, if authorized by an 

order of the manager of the property on which the rent is due. 

31. Disabilities of a Government ward.— (1) A Government ward shall be incompetent to transfer or 
create any charge on, or interest in, his property or any part thereof (except such interest as may be created 
by a will made in accordance with section 32), or to enter into any contract which may involve him in 
pecuniary liability; and no suit shall be brought in any Civil Court whereby to charge any person upon any 
promise made after he has ceased to be a Government ward to pay any debt contracted during the period 
when he was a Government ward, or upon any ratification made after he has ceased to be a Government 
ward  of  any  promise  or  contract  made  during  the  period  aforesaid,  whether  there  is  or  is  not  any  new 
consideration for such promise or ratification. 

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the capacity of a Government ward to enter into a 

contract of marriage: 

Provided that a Government ward shall not incur, in connection with such a contract, any pecuniary 
liability,  except  such  as,  having  regard  to  the  personal  law  to  which  he  is  subject  and  to  his  rank  and 
circumstances, the Court of Wards may, in writing, declare to be reasonable. 

32. Consent of Local Government necessary to adoptions or wills made by Government wards.— 
No adoption by a Government ward, and no written or verbal permission to adopt given by a Government 
ward, or will made by a Government ward, shall be valid without the consent of the  Local Government 
obtained, either previously or subsequently to the adoption or to the giving of the permission, or the making 
of the will, on application made to it through the Court of Wards. 

33. Procedure when succession to Government ward’s property is disputed.— Whenever, on the 
death of any Government ward, the succession to his property or any part thereof is disputed, the Court of 
Wards may, with the previous sanction of the Local Government, either direct that the property or the part 
thereof be made over to any person claiming the property, or retain the superintendence of the property 
until one of the claimants has established his claim to the same in a competent Civil Court, or institute a 
suit of interpleader against all the claimants. 

34. Withdrawal of superintendence of Court of Wards.— (1) The Court of Wards may, with the 
sanction of the Local Government, at any time withdraw its superintendence from the person or property, 
or both, of a Government ward, and shall withdraw its superintendence as soon as,— 

(a) in the case of a person disqualified under clause (a) of section 5, sub-section (1), he attains his 

majority; 

(b) in the case of a person disqualified under clause (b) of the same, he ceases to be of unsound 

mind and incapable of managing his affairs; 

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(c) in the case of a person disqualified under sub-clause (i) of clause (c) of the same, his physical 

or mental defect or infirmity is removed or ceases: 

Provided as follows:— 

(i)  whenever  a  Government  ward  lies  or  ceases  to  be  disqualified  and  his  property  is  still 
encumbered with debts and liabilities, the Court of Wards may, with the previous sanction of the Local 
Government, either release such property or retain it under its  superintendence until such debts and 
liabilities have been discharged; and, 

(ii) if one or more of the proprietors of a property remain disqualified, although another or others 
may have ceased to be disqualified, the Court of Wards may, with the previous sanction of the Local 
Government, retain the whole of the property under its superintendence, paying any proprietor who has 
ceased to be disqualified, the surplus income accruing from his share of the estate. 

(2)  Where  any  question  arises  as  to  whether  the  superintendence  of  the  Court  of  Wards  should  be 
withdrawn from any person or property, or both, under clause (a), or from any property under clause (c), 
of sub-section (1), the decision of the Local Government thereon shall be final, and no suit shall be brought 
in any Civil Court in respect of such decision. 

35. Appointment of guardian in certain cases.— (1) Where, in exercise of the power conferred by 
section 34, the Court of Wards decides to withdraw its superintendence from the person and property of 
any minor, it shall, before such withdrawal, by an order in writing, appoint some person to be guardian of 
the person or property, or both, of the minor, and such appointment shall take effect from the date of such 
release. 

(2) In appointing a guardian under this section, the Court of Wards shall be guided by the provisions of 
the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (VIII of 1890); and every guardian so appointed shall have, and be 
subject to, the same rights, duties and liabilities as if he had been appointed under that Act. 

36. Withdrawal to be notified in Gazette.—Where the Court of Wards withdraw its superintendence 
from any person or property under this Act, the fact of such withdrawal shall be notified in the Local official 
Gazette. 

37.  Appeals.—An  appeal  shall  lie  from  every  order  passed  under  this  Act,  whether  original  or  on 

appeal,— 

(a) if the order is that of a Commissioner, to the Local Government; 

(b) if the order is that of a Deputy Commissioner, to the Commissioner; 

(c) in all other cases, to the Deputy Commissioner: 

Provided that in no case shall a third appeal lie. 

38. Control of Local Government.— All orders or proceedings under this Act shall be subject to the 
supervision and control of the Local Government; and the Local Government may, if it thinks fit, revise, 
modify or reverse any such order or proceeding, whether an appeal is presented against any such order or 
proceeding or not. 

39. Exercise of discretion not to be questioned in Civil Court.— No suit shall be brought in any 

Civil Court in respect of the exercise of any discretion conferred by this Act. 

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40. Power for Local Government to make rules.— (1) The Local Government may make rules to 

carry out the purposes and objects of this Act. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may— 

(a) prescribe the matters to which regard should be had in appointing or removing guardians and 

managers, and in fixing their remuneration; 

(b) regulate the amount of security to be given by managers; 

(c) prescribe the cases in which proposals or arrangements connected with the administration of the 

properties of Government wards shall be reported for the sanction of the Local Government; 

(d) prescribe the accounts and other returns which, and the periods and form at and in which, they 

shall be rendered to the Court of Wards and by the Court of Wards to the Local Government; 

(e)  regulate  the  custody  of  securities  and  title-deeds  belonging  to  the  estate  or  property  of  a 

Government ward; 

(f) regulate the procedure in inquiries by, and in appeals from orders of, the Court of Wards under 

this Act, and fix the periods of limitation which shall apply to such appeals; 

(g) confer upon the Court of Wards for the purposes of this Act any of the powers exercised by a 

Civil Court in the trial of suits; 

(h) prescribe the mode in which powers delegated to managers are to be notified for the information 

of persons concerned; and 

(i) generally prescribe the manner in which the powers and duties of the Court of Wards under this 

Act shall be exercised and performed. 

(3) All rules made under this section shall be published in the Local official Gazette, and shall on such 

publication have effect as if enacted by this Act. 

41. Repeal.—The enactments mentioned in the schedule are repealed to the extent specified  in the 

fourth column thereof. 

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THE SCHEDULE. 

Year. 

No. 

Short title. 

Extent of repeal. 

1 

2 

1885     .  XVII 

3 

4 

The  Central  Provinces  Government  Wards  Act, 
1885. 

The whole. 

1890     .  VIII 

The Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. 

1891    .  XII 

The Repealing and Amending Act, 1891. 

So  much  of  section  2 and 
the  schedule  as  relates  to 
Act XVII of 1885. 

So much as relates to Act 
XVII of 1885. 

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